[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu":3,"chapter-i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-518":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm a Forest Warden—Why Am I Enslaving a Succubus?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2329562,4555,"Chapter 518: Breakthrough and Dispersion","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-518",518,"\u003Cp>The golems are not artificial magical creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are born from the will of the earth and the power of the elements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They emerge from ancient caverns deep underground, naturally congealing from rock, metal, soil, and spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some mages believe these primal golems are the world’s trial of life forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their defect—lacking full emotion and soul—dooms them to never shine as brightly as humans or elves in any age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the awakening of autonomous consciousness in golems is clearly incomplete, as if missing some crucial component.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some scholars believe this absence is tied to humans—they may be a link in humanity’s evolutionary chain, a failed trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>golems are regarded as “unfinished humans.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of this, most charm and mind-control spells effective against humans work even better on golems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rogef! That’s your idea of a good whip? Can you aim better?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The halfling Kurt cursed at Luo De.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his bare arm, a bright red whip mark was clearly visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t much damage, but it still hurt!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De scratched his head and feigned an awkward smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Next time, I’ll do better.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even as he said that,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as the battle rapidly escalated into a frenzy, cries of pain erupted one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You brat! Why whip me?! I was even going to introduce you to girls!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rogef!!! I’m standing this far back and you still hit me?! Are you fucking doing it on purpose?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luo De, did I do something wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone present\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>without exception was struck by Luo De’s long whip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though some cursed, others glared, he ignored them all, slapping the [Painful Whipping] buff onto each one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because the battle was raging,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>aside from the archer Elia and the slow-to-notice Caixi'er, none noticed the boost to their physical state or magical spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They assumed it was just a burst of latent potential in the face of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elia’s reaction was absurdly fast—she immediately looked at him in shock right after the whip struck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, [Painful Whipping] wasn’t his classic move as Forest Warden Luo De.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply moved his body fluidly, “panicking” across the battlefield, occasionally “accidentally” pulling his allies back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This directly avoided their heads being crushed by the mountain-like fists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De was exasperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pretending to be useless while saving people was more exhausting than just cutting straight through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet despite his backup and buffs,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as time passed, the adventurers’ mistakes kept increasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the mage Harrison—forced into a surrounded position, he repeatedly interrupted his casting, suffering backlash that left him pale and his focus shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mage unable to cast and physically weak was nothing but a liability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though the tiger-woman Caixi and the tiefling Caixi'er were fierce enough as frontliners,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>facing twenty golems with rock-and-metal bodies, they couldn’t deliver damage as precise or effective as spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation was grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spider Sense] triggered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De’s eyes flashed like lightning, instantly locking onto a fleeting red glow on the archer Elia’s wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiefling girl cried out sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beam of flame shot forth, piercing straight through the chest of one golem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive golem stiffened; through the hole, the melted half of its core was visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well done, Caixi'er!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiger-woman Caixi shouted excitedly, lunging forward to shove aside another golem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This created a gap in the encirclement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This way! Break out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Coming! Hey! What are you staring at?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurt, using his halfling agility, dodged a giant fist while grabbing Luo De’s arm and sprinted out right behind Caixi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, the guy was surprisingly helpful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Caixi'er! Pull me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harrison cried pitifully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a mage, he was positioned at the rear and moved too slowly to keep up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the archer Elia frowned, her gaze fixed on Caixi'er, and turned back to help him too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of this brief delay,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the other golems surged back and surrounded them again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the chaos,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caixi the tiger-woman, Kurt the halfling, and Luo De formed one group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caixi'er the tiefling, Elia the archer, and Harrison the mage formed the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive bodies of the golems split them apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caixi panicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She immediately turned to break another gap, but this time, the golems were too numerous, clearly separating the two groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurt cried out again: “Another wave’s coming!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caixi turned back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the dark forest, several mounds of earth had risen—and more golems crawled out of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it! Where the hell are all these golems coming from in Double Finger Mountain?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst a dense storm of impacts and roars,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caixi had to bellow:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Break out of the encirclement individually! Regroup outside the mountain!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood!” *2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harrison and Caixi'er shouted back through the wall of golems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another wave of golems charged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the two groups of adventurers were completely scattered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caixi the tiger-woman and Kurt the halfling no longer cared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They just ran blindly outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether by luck or something else,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after running nearly ten minutes through the dark banyan trees of Double Finger Mountain, the heavy footsteps grew distant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t dare stop, sprinting another ten minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did they dare pause to catch their breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One collapsed flat on the ground; the other leaned against a tree, gasping heavily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quickly… go back to Shi Ying Town… report.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve got long legs—you go—hah—hah—hah—ah puke!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurt gagged, nearly vomiting, “We’re done, Rogef—you’re young, you go back fast!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly froze, lifting his head to look around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rogef?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the halfling’s startled cry, Caixi the tiger-woman also looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>under the moonlight, the dark Double Finger Mountain held nothing but endless, gnarled, ancient banyan trees, their branches clawing wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where was Rogef?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De shattered a stealth spell ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They closely followed the trio ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Saixier dragged the screaming Harrison by the back of his tunic, sprinting wildly, her body covered in scrapes and bloodstains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind her, the archer Aliya kept pace; her wooden bow was gone, one arm hung limp and useless, the other gripped tightly around a chipped long hunting knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if deliberately guiding them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golems always appeared along their escape route down the mountain, forcing them to veer further and further off course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, their strength nearly spent,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they narrowly escaped the golems’ pursuit and stumbled into a hidden cave to catch their breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, as if fate mocked them, within that cave lay a plant emitting a disorienting miasma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, all three collapsed into unconsciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1079,"2026-06-20T19:55:32.074Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b26aa21d2c12e0c45075984976850f7378bc2ca039b5d126c85a004f2164608f","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-519","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-517",704,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-cover.jpg"]